The variation of polymer topology provides an alternative way to tune the properties of
polymer materials without varying the chemistry of the monomers composing the polymer …

Polymeric ionic liquids (PILs) are of considerable interest as next-generation battery
materials due to their potential to combine the solid-state stability of polymers with the high …

The emergence of the solid state in glass-forming materials upon cooling is accompanied by
changes in both thermodynamic and viscoelastic properties and by a precipitous drop in …

The origin of the precipitous dynamic arrest known as the glass transition is a grand open
question of soft condensed matter physics. It has long been suspected that this transition is …

The key role of chain flexibility in polymer glass formation has long been appreciated, but a
fundamental understanding of how chain stiffness influences polymer glass formation …

The generalized entropy theory (GET) of glass formation provides an analytic framework for
the structural relaxation time and thermodynamic properties of glass-forming polymers in …

There is a long history of trying to understand the dynamics of glass-forming and other
condensed materials exhibiting highly anharmonic interparticle interactions based on their …

Motivated by empirical observations suggesting that changes in the activation volume Δ V#
upon varying temperature (T), determined from the pressure (P) dependence of the …

Graft polymers have attracted growing interest due to their unique properties, but a
fundamental understanding of their glass formation remains to be established. We perform …

We investigate the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of a model unentangled glass-
forming polymer melt over a wide range of pressures (P) and temperatures (T) using …